THE LEFT WILL BE THE RUIN OF US

THE LEFT WILL BE THE RUIN OF US

From Diana West on Monday, July 02, 2012 10:27 AM

Not all that long after the Supremes decimated sovereignty and self-government with knockout-blow-rulings on Arizona and Obamacare, and the State Department issued a visa to a member of Egypt’s Islamic Group, a massive storm knocked out the power and phones of hundreds of thousands of people in the Washington area (me, included).

COINCIDENCE?

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“Let’s be clear about the misnomer “liberal,” which implies a political philosophy advocating personal freedom. But self-proclaimed liberals are actually very uncomfortable with the notion of individual freedom. After all, if people are free to make their own choices in life, they will very likely make ones that the left doesn’t agree with; better to have an authoritarian government to step in and make the correct choices for you that you can’t be trusted to make for yourself.”

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FIRST-ORDER ARTICLES, LINKS ABOUT THE LEFT

Read. Digest. Meditate. Evangelize.

Good to get a grip on the Left’s ancestry. Its mothering, its fathering. Its litter mates. Its own fornicated spawn.

Though born (or, at least midwifed) from the Parisian Jacobins, the Left’s dovetailing with Islam (political or otherwise) is striking.

One must not forget that conference in Baku, in the 1920’s, when Hell’s Gate got smashed – and all that bastard spawn spewed forth. Why was John Reed so enthused? Did some whirlwind devil, from centuries past, whisper a certain prophecy?

OBAMA AGAINST THE CHURCH. Our other little blog collection regarding the HHS Mandate crisis. Extraordinary lesson the snaky, smarmy reach of the Left in the politics and our culture. That collection along with our on the OWS Movement (see “The Three Evils PAGE), scroll to bottom) is a comprehensive school in how to think realistically and righteously.

“The Leftist (World) Purification Movement”,Andrew Thomas (American Thinker.) This is frightening. In order to prepare – in order to do – we must repent. Pray to God and Sweet Mary that the Church be not tempted by this movement’s universalism. Remember, Church, your first duty is towards lost coins and lambs – only the particular reflects the image of God. (In the Creed we say “I” not “we”.) God is quite jealous of his Particular Affections – especially his first one.

“Liberal Bigotry“, Jerry Shenk (American Thinker). The American left reserves its ugliest bigotry for Christians. When liberals speak or write about practicing Christians, especially evangelical Christians and, in this presidential election year, Mormons, no slander is unacceptable

“A War still Rages within Them“, Michael Curran (American Thinker). Suicide is not just a prevalent problem with active-duty and Reserve personnel – it places its cold hand of death upon our veterans in alarming numbers.

“The Church and Modernity”, Chilton Williamson, Jr. (via Ignatius Insight). It is an uneasy relationship, especially since many aspects of the “modern age” run counter to Christian thinking and living.

“The Political Gospel of Pain“, Glenn Fairman (American Thinker). Focus and tenacity are levers to move the world. In contradistinction, hysteria and emotionality are the provenance of the Progressive caste.

“The Canary in the Culture“, Tom Trinko (American Thinker). The HHS mandate is showing us that in the liberal mind, the government defines everyone’s morality and the average American has to live with that definition.

“Fighting the Real Enemy“, Bruce Walker (American Thinker). It’s not easy, but it beats being a slave. Here’s how to get it done.

“The Logic of Liberalism“, G. Donald Allen (American Thinker). For liberals, two common conclusions intertwine within their logic: spending more money, and the government as the centerpiece of all activities.

“The Poor, the Pope, and the Liberals“, Tom Trinko (American Thinker). Liberals claiming Pope Francis as one of their own because of his clear love and concern for the poor may well have spoken too soon.

“The Gods of the Copybook Headings are in Cyprus“, Howard Richman, Raymond Richman, and Jesse Richman (American Thinker). In his 1919 poem, The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling compares the truths of the real world (“the Gods of the Copybook Headings”) with the promises of social progressives. Cyprus just got a dose of the former.

“Constructing Babel“, Glenn Fairman (American Thinker). If America is not now a Post-Christian society, then it is hurtling towards becoming so at the speed of Lucifer falling.

“Combating Cultural Totalitarianism“, Bruce Walker (American Thinker). Political totalitarians are easy to find. But our most important battle in America at this time is against the cultural ones.

“The Great Surrender‘, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker). Modernity may be on the verge of obliterating its own great promise and achievement, and revealing itself at last as The Age of the Great Surrender.

“It’s the Language, Stupid“ Roger D. Luchs (American Thinker). If truth in labeling laws were applied to politics, the American left would have headed for the hills.

“The Intolerance of Liberal Toleration”, James Kalb (Crisis). D. A. Carson, a well-known Reformed theologian and exegete, has written a clear and well-reasoned analysis of today’s imperialistic tolerance from an Evangelical and classically liberal standpoint. He tells us that the new understanding of tolerance has meant a shift.

“The Source of Our Moral Decay?“, Paul Shlichta (American Thinker). “If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

“Leftus Ignoramus“, Bruce Walker (American Thinker). Leftists seem to harbor a profound ignorance of geography, history, and other hard facts which anyone involved in politics ought to know. How exactly do they get away with it?

“Facing Up to the Enormity of Our Problem“, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker). The modern left’s anti-rational, anti-virtuous, anti-individualist superstructure must be destroyed, mercilessly and thoroughly. It took generations for this brilliant scheme to be wound around the West, like spider’s silk around its paralyzed prey.

“Civil Liberties and the Civil War“, Bruce Walker (American Thinker). The idea that the federal government is the best vehicle for protecting civil liberties is a ridiculous myth that dates back to the 1860s.

“The Criminal Profiling of Conservative White Males“, Richard Winchester (American Thinker). What does it say that Leftists seem to react to virtually every highly visible criminal act with the hope that the “perp” is a white guy or, even better, a conservative white guy?

“Professors of Anti-Fascism“, Paul Austin Murphy (American Thinker). ‘Anti-fascism’ has developed into a lucrative industry — and on an international scale.

“A Living Document? Well, that Depends“, Jim Yardley (American Thinker). “Liiving document” essentially means that the Constitution can be interpreted to mean just about anything that the current administration wants it to mean.

“The New Reformation”Lisa Fabrizio(American It’s purely secular and it threatens everything represented by the original Reformation.

“A U.S. Constitution for Our Dystopian Present, Anthony Esolen (Crisis). We the People of the United States of America, to relieve ourselves of the burdens of virtue and the nuisance of self-government, and to secure the blessings that flow from the collective and the isolated individual, do establish this Constitution. There shall be a Supreme Court of the United States, composed of nine lawyers. All cultural questions shall be submitted.

“More Demonizing Inequality“, Ralf Mangual (American Thinker). The Right needs to articulate — with greater authority than it has — the detriments that naturally accompany any attempts to equalize outcomes.

“The High Entitlement Mind“, Deborah C. Tyler (American Thinker). A vast and stultifying sense of inferiority is the engine powering the degradation of the Untied States.

“America’s Tyranny Threshold“, Eileen F. Toplansky (American Thinker). As he finishes up his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, Barack Obama would be well-served to recall the fiery words of Jonathan Mayhew, who is famous for his sermons “espousing American rights — the cause of liberty, and the right and duty to resist tyranny.

“How Long Will Secular Liberalism Endure?”, James Kalb (Crisis). Secular liberalism is at odds with Catholicism. The point seemed obvious to most people until the postwar period, when the thought took hold that an essentially harmonious relationship could be established that would draw on the American model. America, it…

“The Real Social Darwinists“, Lewis Andrews (American Thinker). American liberals have succeeded in sustaining the illusion of altruistic intent for quite some time.

A Plague of Demons, James G. Long (American Thinker) Is psychopathology the missing factor in analyses of history and politics?

The U.S. Constitution has no Teeth, Michael Bargo Jr. (American Thinker). With regard to purely Constitutional issues, such as the First Amendment violations of the IRS, there doesn’t seem to be any teeth in the Constitution.

The Academy’s Hypersensitive Hissy Fits, Robert Oscar Lopez (American Thinker). Academia: a mob of screeching lunatics escaping the asylum at midnight and running through the streets in their nightgowns, howling at ghosts at every turn.

The Left, the Right and the March of Death(Gates of Vienna) Our Israeli correspondent MC takes a look at the traditional distinction between Right and Left, and what it has signified throughout the course of history.

There Has to be a System’, Christopher Chantrill (American Thinker) There can be no system for us, for free men and women, because system is domination.

“The Libs Have Their Story“, J. Robert Smith (American Thinker). Refusing to admit that mental illness lies behind massacres like the Washington Navy Yard shootings is a mental disorder in and of itself.

The People of the Lie, Christopher Chantrill (American Thinker) All the lying tells us something. It tells us how hard it is for liberals to get up in the morning and tell America the truth about their political agenda.

Three Minutes that Transformed AmericaSteve McCann (American Thinker) Within months of the assassination of John Kennedy, America turned dramatically to the left as the avowed disciples of Franklin Roosevelt and European socialism assumed the reins of power.

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Call Did Not Go Through , Bernie Reeves (American Thinker) One intriguing morsel mostly ignored by conspiracy theorists and Warren Commission defenders alike: the call to Raleigh that Oswald attempted to make following his arrest in Dallas.

“Bill Ayers and the Culture of Rape“, M. Catharine Evans (American Thinker). Bill Ayers told a University of Oregon social justice class in 2012 “our fate hinges on our ability to open our eyes.” Well, Bill, rumor has it you are rapist, so let’s open the discussion.

Deconstructing Bill Ayers, Jack Cashill (American Thinker). Bill Ayers has a new book out. The eternal rich kid, celebrated constantly by the leftist elite, is trying really hard to pretend that he’s a dissident.

“Understanding the Threat of Progressivism’s Equality“, Dr. Tom Barron 9american Thinker). There is only one type of equality compatible with freedom: the equality of treatment of all individuals. Radical egalitarianism requires unequal treatment by force and subordination of the rights of some to the dictates of the collective.

“Where’s the Progress in Progressivism?“, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker). Perhaps the ultimate explanation of every progressive atrocity, real and prospective, from the Communist Manifesto to Bill Ayers’ projection of the need to kill twenty-five million Americans who resist re-education.

“Benghazi Reveals the Heart of Progressivism“, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker). A cold lack of interest in the suffering of others — not the abstract, theoretical suffering of collective interest groups, such as “the poor” or “gays” or “women,” but the real physical pain and mortal terror-style suffering of individual human beings in mortal crisis.

“Our Enemy the Administrative State“, Dr. Tom Barron (American Thinker). The vague “fundamental transformation” promised by Barack Obama prior to his first inauguration is nearly complete. Do Americans like what they see?

“MoreThe Ethics of “Sacrifice, the Politics of Slavery“, Boyd Richard Boyd (American Thinker). It is the ethics of sacrifice which lead to the politics of slavery. It can take no other course and has been this way throughout history. EXCELLENT. PROGRESSIVES CAN GO JUMP.

“[O]ne cannot abstract from the historical situation of the nation or attack the cultural identity of the people. Consequently, one cannot passively accept, still less actively support, groups which by force or by the manipulation of public opinion take over the State apparatus and unjustly impose on the collectivity an imported ideology contrary to the culture.

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SOURCES: MARXISM & COMMUNISM

HAVE LOADS AND TONS OF MATERIAL, SCATTERED ACROSS THIS SITE AND STUFFED IN BOXES. FOR NOW< THESE WILL DO.

“Why Kolakowski Matters”, Vladimir Tismaneanu (FrontPage). A reflection on one of the noblest apostates in the history of ideas.

“The Lupine Socialist Dream“, Glenn Fairman (American Thinker). As republics inexorably begin their death swoons into full democracies, that great magnetic pull towards equality in all of its forms becomes culturally irresistible.

“The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 1: Demonizing the Non-Compliant”, Oleg Atbashian (American Thinker). In a society shaped by the government’s mind games of manipulative illusions, a dissenter sticks out like a sore thumb. Once the resistance has been demonized, its members will be quickly identified and denounced by the compliant citizenry.

“The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 3: Demonizing Human Nature“, Oleg Atbashian (American Thinker). The Marxist notion of human progress is a spiral that would return humanity to stateless, moneyless, classless, and selfless collectivism. For that purpose they must, so to speak, put the genie of individualism back into the bottle.

“Dewey: Stalin’s Propagandist, the World’s Teacher“, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker). The single most influential man in the history of public education published a book whitewashing Stalinist tyranny, and inadvertently revealing his real aims with startling frankness.

“Denial About Stockholm”, Bruce Bawer (FrontPage). Even conservative magazines buy into the lie of what ignited the Swedish riots. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW MULTICULTURALISM CANNOT BE USED TO EXCUSE ISLAM, FOR ISLAM IS ITS GREATEST BENEFICIARY.

“The Diversity Shield“, R.B. Parrish (American Thinker). Once assigned a group identity, we forfeit the right to private dissent.

Inclusiveness: A Harmful Ideology, James Kalb (Crisis) We hear a lot about inclusiveness, but the topic is never discussed analytically. The idea seems to be that it’s warm and fuzzy and what Jesus would do, so it’s obviously a good thing. The result is that our world is being remade for the sake of a goal that hasn’t been thought through.

Obama and the EU push Genocide, James Lewis (American Thinker) Decades of propaganda have convinced Americans that we are the bad hats and the Third World has all the innocent victims of history. That is the opposite of the truth.

BOOK: Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It by James Kalb

“[O]ne cannot abstract from the historical situation of the nation or attack the cultural identity of the people. Consequently, one cannot passively accept, still less actively support, groups which by force or by the manipulation of public opinion take over the State apparatus and unjustly impose on the collectivity an imported ideology contrary to the culture.

“Incinerating the American West”, Robert Zubrin (PJ Media). This little piece will do as a stand in for a library of commentary on the damage “the Greens” have visited upon the American West, especially its forests.

“Have a Little Faith, Just Trust Me!”, Jim Yardley (American Thinker). Environmental extremists on the left treat their belief system as a religion, something that has not been proven and might not even be capable of proof. That’s the definition of a religion, isn’t it?

“The New Holocaust-Deniers”, Robert Zubrin (PJ Media). Environmentalism the Religion as the new King Herod slaughtering the innocents.

“EPA Corruption and Scandal“, Jim O’Sullivan (American Thinker). The EPA’s sleaziness, its disregard for transparency, its fraudulent estimation of costs/benefits, and now its attempt to defy and evade a Federal Court order (and by extension FOIA, mail and wire fraud laws) combines both inbred corruption and serious scandal.

“Climate Change in Perspective “ (American Thinker). Picking changes that just match the current academic, governmental, and political “consensus” on climate change is not how authentic science is supposed to work.

“‘Trust Us, Skeptics Are Crooks’“, Russell Cook (American Thinker). For an issue supposedly rooted in pure science, it’s hard to overlook how promoters of man-caused global warming have every appearance of being not only anti-intellectual, but also blatantly anti-science.

“Sea Level Rise Surprise“, S. Fred Singer (American Thinker). The most widely feared consequence of Global Warming appears to be a catastrophic rise in sea level. But the alarmists may be in for a big surprise.

“Global Warming as Faith“, Norman Rogers (American Thinker). It should not seem remarkable that governmental organizations and highly educated scientists have become fanatical followers of a global warming ideology.

“Let Us Not Forget the Wonder of Creation”, Regis Martin (Crisis). In his fantastical account of “The Unthinkable Theory of Professor Green,” G.K. Chesterton invites us to imagine an astronomer regaling his audience in great and gorgeous detail about a strange new planet he’s just discovered. Only gradually do we realize.

“What Fracking Hath Wrought“, Gary Jason (American Thinker). The kleptocrats of OPEC have a lot to fear from the United States’ latest energy innovation.

“A Tale of Two Climate Hockey Sticks“, S. Fred Singer (American Thinker). One is real, the other is not. The evidence presented here will cause unhappiness for both extreme alarmists and extreme skeptics. Maybe that’s a good thing.

“The End is Nigh, Well in 2050 Anyway”, Austin Ruse (Crisis). Conservationists understand the culling of a population is sometimes necessary, particularly when the habitat can no longer sustain the species. Nature steps in, sometimes man, and helps the species by killing some of its members. And even if local populations sometimes need culling, biologists measure the success of a species by its growth and argue that population decline can be…

“Can a Generation Own the Earth?“, Bruce Frohnen (Crisis). “The earth belongs always to the living generation.” These are not Thomas Jefferson’s most famous words, but they are quite famous among students of politics. They have been used for generations to justify radical political change. And, like the soaring.

Selling Global Warming — Again, Paul Austin Murray (American Thinker). The exponents of global warming state a necessary connection between raising CO2 levels and rising temperature levels. Yet the evidence suggests that in the most recent period this hasn’t happened.

The Academy’s Hypersensitive Hissy Fits, Robert Oscar Lopez (American Thinker). Academia: a mob of screeching lunatics escaping the asylum at midnight and running through the streets in their nightgowns, howling at ghosts at every turn.

The Apocalyptic Nature of Environmentalism, David Byrne (Crisis) Every few years a Christian preacher predicts imminent Armageddon, gains some followers and is thrust into the national headlines. Most recently, Harold Camping, the iterant Oakland preacher, announced the world would end on May 22, 2011. Camping prophesized this will be accompanied by massive earthquakes, chaos, death and destruction, just as described in the Book of Revelation. A new heaven…

Broken-Window Environmentalism, Robert T. Smith (American Thinker) Those of us in “flyover country” are scratching our heads at what bureaucrats in the EPA consider a stimulant for the economy.

SCOTUS Revisits EPA Regulation of CO2, S. Fred Singer (American Thinker) The US Supreme Court has decided to re-visit CO2 regulation by EPA. The outcome is uncertain, but has major implications for cost of energy, economic growth, jobs, and the general welfare.

“Nazis as Nature Mystics”, John Stroup (The Word/not available online). Connect the thought here to Islam’s monotheism (that is, its absolutist, isolationist, beyond walks in the cool of the evening, monotheism)

“The Green-Nazi Axis“ (American Thinker). AT author Mark Musser will be interviewed on the connections between National Socialism and environmentalism on the nationally syndicated Janet Mefferd Show between 3 and 4 PM Eastern time today. An internet live feed is available.

“Freedom’s Dictators (review)”, Bruce Thornton (Private Papers). Quoting Goldberg, “Conservatism is neither identity politics for Christians and/or white people nor right-wing progressivism. Rather, it is opposition to all form of political religion. It is a rejection of the idea that politics can be redemptive. It is the conviction that a properly ordered republic has a government of limited ambition.”

“In Praise of Capitalist Inequality”, Paul Hsieh (PJ Media). There would be no art, no music, no literature is there was no inequality. Praise be the Lord Jesus Christ. There would be no universal salvation without the inequality of God’s particular affections.

Vatican calls for universal banking authority (Chiesa). UTTER RUBBISH. Is the Pope sitting down with the WSOers? Need to calm down, remind myself this falls under prudent judgment. REMINDER: The “peace and justice” cubicle in the curia is riddle with aging ideologues.

Samuel Gregg puts a welcome dose of common sense into the ruckus the document has stirred. Thanks Sam. Will yield. Read his piece over – and twice. Digest. (National Review Online)

“The Pope, Chaplain to WSO? Rubbish!”, George Weigel (National Review Online). You’re right, George, but the Vatican does prick the boundaries at times, pulling in the International Left as some extraordinary minister. Why doesn’t Chiesa make things clear?

“The Pope Occupies Wall Street”, Ben Shaprio (FrontPage). Here I am being discouraged again. Weigel, Gregg, Brumley need to do an exegesis of the second to last paragraph. Does the “universalist mission” propel the Church to advocate for a universal government, in whatever area or as a totalitarian governing entity? I am vehemently opposed to the Church in this regard.if this is the case. Does that make me a bad son? The Kingdom of God (Christ) does not equal a uni8versal temporal authority. What do yo9u say Gregg, Weigel, Brumley?

Will the Mockingjay Catch Fire?, Glenn Fairman (American Thinker) It is possible to know something, and yet not know it: to consent to a thing subliminally while averting our inward eye so as not to perceive its true gravity.

Inclusiveness: Bad Religion and Bad Reason, James Kalb (Crisis) In a recent piece in Crisis I argued that secular and rationalizing ways of thought applied to the social environment soon bring us to inclusiveness. Giving people what they want equally, which is the goal of a liberal technocratic society, includes giving them equal social positions. Inclusiveness is thus part of the modern effort to apply the technological outlook comprehensively.

Green Socialists on Mars, Daniel Greenfield (FrontPage) Socialists are from Mars. Environmentalists are from Venus. Climate Consensus Con Game, S. Fred Singer 9American Thinker) With no observed climate warming for more than 15 years, the contentious debate about a ‘scientific consensus’ on Global Warming looks increasingly ridiculous. Uppity Deniers, Unite! , Leann Horrocks (American Thinker) We need to take “man-caused climate change” out of the “motherhood” category and put it in the “let’s take a closer look” category. The Great Emancipator vs. the Green Menace , Deborah B. Sloan (American Thinker) The freedom provided by cars is a basic element of the American way of life. No wonder the left wants to curtail it. . Losing the Argument , Charles Cooke (NRO) Global warming will soon cause everything. MWhere are the Global Warmists for Freedom?, Daren Jonescu (American Thinker) “I need to take over your life, but it’s for your own good,” is not a line of argument men who still imagine themselves to be human are likely to accept, regardless of how many computer models you can provide.